Reader Karl Schwartz believes his laptop's array is afflicted abundant that it needs analysis. He writes:
I accept a 15" MacBook Pro and was apprehensive if there was a congenital analytic to assay my battery.
There is. Launch System Profiler (found in the Utilities binder or by allotment About This Mac from the Apple card and again beat the More Info button), baddest Array in the Contents pane, and Array Information will be the aboriginal entry. If you're active Leopard, beneath the Health Information branch you'll see Cycle Count usb world and Condition entries. If you're active Tiger, you won't see a Condition entry.
The Cycle Count access gives you some abstraction of how far forth in its activity the array is. According to Apple, "a appropriately maintained Apple anthology array is advised to absorb up to 80% of its aboriginal accommodation at 300 abounding allegation and acquittal cycles." So, if you're advancing that 300 cycles, you accept that your array is traveling to action beneath of a allegation the best you use it.
The Condition access should consistently apprehend Good. If it reads annihilation added than Good, you could accept a problem--the affectionate of affair you ability wish to altercate with Apple if you haven't had the laptop for long.
If you're active a adaptation of OS X that doesn't acquaint you aggregate you wish to know, glom assimilate a archetype of Sonora Graphics' chargeless Array Health Monitor application. It provides stats on the battery's aboriginal and accepted capacities, accepted charge, allegation cycles, and voltage in an easy-to-read interface.
